Ok, I am setting up a RAID box, a PII-350 with an ASUS P2B-S mobo (adaptec 7000 chip). I found some document on the web that explained how to set up software RAID correctly (I think it was a HOWTO, but it seems to have gone missing, I cant find it anywhere). I got it working with kernel 2.2.5 (I'm using RAID-0). I have two RAID devices, md0 and md1. /home is on md0 and /usr is on md1. However, I was having a problem. When I wrote stuff to the disk and then compared it to the source (a cd) they differed slightly. That state of affairs not being acceptable I decided to try a newer kernel (upon the suggestion that the older scsi drivers might be faulty). So I downloaded 2.2.10 and compiled and installed it as I thought was correct (I compiled in md support and RAID-0 mode as well as generic scsi support - for my HP CD-writer and the AIC-7000 support for my scsi card). Now the machine will not boot at all if I have /dev/md0 or /dev/md1 anywhere in my fstab. It fails when checking the filesystems on md0 and md1, saying "short read opening /dev/md0" (same for md1). I am having a really hard time understanding what is going wrong here. I would be most grateful for any suggestions that people might have (this machine is due very shortly, I need to get it finished so I can deploy it) and also, if anyone knows a good document that explains how to do software RAID, step by step, I would be grateful for that. Thank you, Sean Harper
